Cultivar

B. ‘Honor’

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Honor’
Originator: Brad Thompson
Date of Origin: 2003
Place: Lomita, Ca.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. masoniana
Male Parent: B. ‘Charles Jaros’
Publication Reference: BTL;YBG

Plant

Description: Very full growing and compact, usually grows less than a foot tall with a spreading habit. Leaves are small to medium, deeply lobed and textured. Leaves are white with green veins. Easy to grow and showy. Flowers are greenish yellow on upright stalks.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. masoniana

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Honor’

Female parent

B. masoniana

Etymology: after Maurice Mason; The “Iron Cross” Begonia;

Male parent

B. ‘Charles Jaros’

Female parent

B. hatacoa var. hatacoa

Etymology: uncertain; B. barbata auct. non Wallich ex A. de Candolle: Wallich. Numer. List:129, no. 3679 B. 1831, pro parte, nomen nudum, sphalmate: there is no number 3679B (J.G.). —C.B. Clarke in J.D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:645. 1879. [= rubrovenia W.J. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 79:pl. 4689. 1853.] —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972.; rubrovenia W. J. Hooker. 1853.; rubronervia hort.ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :160. 1855.; hetacoa H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:143. 1972., errore typographico pro hatacoa F. Hamilton ex D. Don. 1825.

Male parent

B. deliciosa

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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